User involvement in innovation processes

Strategies and limitations from a socio-technical perspective
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-3-89019-579-7
Verlag: Profil Mchn.

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung /Science and Technology Studies

Harald Rohracher, IFF/IFZ, Austria: User involvement in technological innovations – an introduction
Part I. User Involvement and Public Participation
James Stewart & Robin Williams, RCSS, University of Edinburgh: The Wrong Trousers? Beyond the Design Fallacy: Social Learning and the User
Jaap Jelsma, University of Twente / ECN, The Netherlands: Bridging Gaps between Technology and Behaviour: a heuristic exercise in the field of energy efficiency in households
Leo Hennen, ITAS / TAB, Germany: Get the public involved? Participatory methods in technology assessment
Imre Hronsky, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary: Parallelities in participatory approaches in production and public administration
Part II. The Gender Perspective
Janice McLaughlin, University of Newcastle, UK: Gendering Technological Change in Organisations
Ellen Balka, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada: Tidying up Loose Ends: theoretical and practical issues related to women’s participation in technological design Els Rommes, University of Twente, The Netherlands:

Taming Technology, Shaping Gender. The Domestication of Amsterdam’s Digital City
Part III. Limits to User Participation
Patrick Feng, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada: Challenges to user participation – the case of technical standards
Kornelia Konrad, Centre for Innovation Research in the Utility Sector, EAWAG, Switzerland: A Circle of Uncertainties: Dilemmas of User Involvement in Highly Dynamic Innovation Processes – evidence from case studies in e-commerce.
Luis Aparicio, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France: Rhetoric and the Public(s) Engagement with Technology. The Promoter’ Political Shaping of the Strasbourg Tramway Project (1989-1994)
Part III. Strategies of User Participation and Case Studies
Matthias Weber, Austrian Research Centres Seibersdorf, Austria: Innovation diffusion, social networks and the self-organisation of large socio-technical systems
Lara Tauritz, University of Twente, The Netherlands: The Tales of the Enschede digital service desk
Simon Guy, Robert Evans and Simon Marvin, University of Newcastle, UK: Mobile Readings of the City: Plans, Users and Sustainable Transport Futures

In gleicher Ausstattung erschienen:

Jamison, A. & Rohracher, H. (Eds.): Technology Studies and Sustainable Development. München und Wien: Profil-Verlag 2002, 438 pp., Euro (D) 30,00, ISBN 3-89019-540-7 („Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung“, Vol. 39),

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rohracher, Harald

Weitere Mitwirkende

Balka, Ellen

Aparicio, Luis

Feng, Patrick

Jelsma, Jaap

McLaughlin, Janice

Rommes, Els

Weber, K Matthias

Konrad, Kornelia

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Harald R o h r a c h e r. Studied technical physics at the Technical University of Graz, sociology and philosophy at the Karl Franzens University of Graz, and also "Science and Technology Policy" at SPRU, University of Sussex, in England.
He has been an academic staff member of the Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture since 1988, head of IFZ and university assistant at the Department of Technology and Science Research of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF) since 1999.
Teaching activities at the University of Klagenfurt and at the Technical University of Graz in the subjects philosophy of technology and socially compatible technology design.
The focuses of his work are: the sociology of technical research, regional energy management, local energy and climate protection concepts, innovative energy service packages, the diffusion of technology and technology policy at a regional level